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[–] lightnegative@lemmy.world 19 points 6 months ago (1 children)

The first thing I noticed. I was confused, thinking maybe they had an old XP machine lying around to plug in after the main one failed, but then I read further and it was just a stunt

[–] sugartits@lemmy.world 21 points 6 months ago

If it were real the machine would have rebooted for a forced update and taken 45 minutes to complete before it was usable again.